Tweets, Posts, and Plots’: Political Parties & Conspiracy Theories on Twitter and Facebook Across Four Countries

• In Event: Narratives and Beliefs

Brief Overview

Drawing on a new coding framework, we analyse 79,680 social media posts by 990 politicians on X and Facebook across Belgium, Finland, Greece, and Poland. Our findings reveal that extreme radical parties are more likely to spread conspiracy theories.

Authors

• Kostas Papaioannou, Universite libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels)

• Nathalie Brack, Universite libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels)

• Piotr Marczynski, Universite libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels)